Lawrence M. Wein

TL;DR: It is argued that agency-related costs and information transfer costs will tend drive the locus of problem-solving in the opposite direction-away from problem-Solving by specialist suppliers, and towards those who directly benefit from a solution and who have difficult-to-transfer local information about a particular application being solved, such as the direct users of a product or service.

TL;DR: In this paper, a variety of input control and sequencing rules are evaluated using a simulation model of a representative, but fictitious, semiconductor wafer fabrication, and the simulation results indicate that scheduling has a significant impact on average throughput time, with larger improvements coming from discretionary imput control than from lot sequencing.

TL;DR: Estimating the number of cases and deaths that would result from an attack in a large urban area of the United States and comparing the results to mass vaccination from the moment an attack is recognized finds that mass vaccination results in both far fewer deaths and much faster epidemic eradication.

TL;DR: In this article, the procurement of new components for recyclable products in the context of Kodak's single-use camera is addressed, where the objective is to find an ordering policy that minimizes the total expected procurement, inventory holding, and lost sales cost.

TL;DR: A mathematical model of a cows-to-consumers supply chain associated with a single milk-processing facility that is the victim of a deliberate release of botulinum toxin reveals the potential to eliminate the threat of this scenario at a cost of <1 cent per gallon and should be pursued aggressively.